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I like a wireless option! Download the app Photo Transfer App. It's not a freebie but it doesn't cost much! You then download the software (free) onto your computer or other devices. Following the very simple instructions you can send and receive photos and videos back and forth from your phone to computer AND vice versa ( I love that option because I can edit my SLR raw files then send them to my iPhone). You also have the option of making folders..etc.
Simple and it works. I am still in awe! Does exactly what it says on the tin!
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Also with an iPhone you should be able to set it up so the photos will automatically download through the iCloud to your computer. They will appear in the Photo Stream folder on your computer. I didn't know that I set mine up this way and I find photos on either my phone or my computer that I didn't transfer yet. Go figure.

Photostream - then your iPhone images go automatically to every Mac device you choose. However, as Photostream only holds 1k images, I have mine set on my iMac to take each Photostream import and pull it into iPhoto. That way even when the January photoshop images are deleted say for the June ones, you will still have them in iPhoto.

Maureen
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You can also wirelessly transfer your photos from your iPhone to Dropbox and they're then accessible from any computer. You can actually copy them from Dropbox to a folder on your computer. I also use the app mentioned earlier.

I don't LOVE the capacity limits for the Cloud and I am not going to pay for more room either!!!

Originally Posted by maureenreynolds

Photostream - then your iPhone images go automatically to every Mac device you choose. However, as Photostream only holds 1k images, I have mine set on my iMac to take each Photostream import and pull it into iPhoto. That way even when the January photoshop images are deleted say for the June ones, you will still have them in iPhoto.

How do you set up so the photos will go into iPhoto on your Mac, Marueen? Can you then delete from your iPhone? I

Originally Posted by KarenC

Thanks, Amy! I'll look at that one.

My son just said, why don't you use Lightroom? So, I just tried it and it works!

And, Karen . . . how is this done with Lightroom????

I have dropbox . . . and Photo Transfer. I haven't used PT yet? Is is easier or better than Dropbox?

I don't LOVE the capacity limits for the Cloud and I am not going to pay for more room either!!!

How do you set up so the photos will go into iPhoto on your Mac, Marueen? Can you then delete from your iPhone?

Molly, go to your iPhone, Settings, iCloud, Photostream, My Photo Stream, and select ON. (You'll see it tells you that all new photos are uploaded and sent to all your Cloud devices WHEN connected to WiFi.) That is the only reason we ran into that 1k's worth of images when in Europe as we weren't always ON wi-fi and the boat's wi-fi service was, not surprisingly, veeeery slow. Otherwise, with our home wi-fi it's more than efficient for me. HTH!

eta: I forgot about your wanting your images to go to iPhoto once the Cloud downloads them to you location of choice.

Go to iPhoto, open it...lol..., go up top to the iPhoto word, select Preferences, Photostream, and then select the options you want. I have all the first three selected, but have no shared photostreams. I considered having my husband's but felt it would overload MY computer. Plus, I have enough to handle with my own images, right???

Maureen
My Blog:Cooking My LifeWhat do we live for if not to make life a little easier for someone?iPhone4Gs is my camera!/27" iMac/Macbook/Mavericks
PSE11/LR5

eta: I forgot about your wanting your images to go to iPhoto once the Cloud downloads them to you location of choice.

Go to iPhoto, open it...lol..., go up top to the iPhoto word, select Preferences, Photostream, and then select the options you want. I have all the first three selected, but have no shared photostreams. I considered having my husband's but felt it would overload MY computer. Plus, I have enough to handle with my own images, right???

Yikes, Maureen!!! I must have done this ages ago. I knew that the iPhone photos were imported into iPhoto! What I really should have asked is how do I get them to be there permanently? As my photos drop off of my iPhone (quess the cloud has reached capacity for me) they also drop out of iPhoto too. How can I make them stay in iPhoto . . . or better yet, in a folder on my external? Should I just copy and paste them into folders as soon as they import to iPhoto? It is hard to know the dates of them . . . now, I must click on each photo to see it's date.

Am I asking too much of iPhoto?

Like you, I would still like to consider Lightroom. I am not really in love with iPhoto or the cloud!!! I am either really dumb or too picky I'm afraid.

Thanks for taking time to answer my previous questions . . . just ignore this one if I'm being too much of a needy pest!!!

I have dropbox on all my devices, but, I only use it for PDF files and ebook tutorials that I purchase using my computer, but, want to read and study them on my iPad. Sorry, I have never used DropBox for photos. Have you clicked on the little drop box icon up in the right hand side of the menu bar at the top of your screen. That's where my PDF files end up and I see that there is a Photo folder in the list. Maybe that is where your photos are?

I use Photo Transfer to move my iPhone photos to my computer where I can then import the into Lightroom for editing before I store them on 2 EHDs. I think Photo Transfer works so well.

I don't remember where or when I did this, but, I must have set my preferences to have photos from my camera import directly into Lightroom. I bypass iPhoto entirely, although that is where I see my PhotoStream.